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>I am doubtful that you can legally, as you say, "if you get hold of an
>electronic database, you can buy a copy, copy the records into your own
>database (using your own format), and sell it!" Especially, where abstracts
>or other brain work is involved.

Yes, but I'm most interested in the cases
(1) where abstracts are NOT included, and the argued originality is
figuring out the formatting rules, but

(2) where fair use is not applicable for some reason (e.g. someone copies
a citation from a citation database which enhances the saleability of the
book she is writing).

Note that US courts have been fairly strict about the "subset" clause.
I haven't ever heard of a valid subset more than 5% of the total work,
for instance.

Any thoughts on this?